Anyone here a pro at interviewing/questions?

[Gutwrench]

Sometimes I wish my federal agency did as well but that decision is above my pay grade. How did you like doing backgrounds?

It was okay. I only did it for about eight months or so.

We hired mostly laterals but processed some entry level.

The laterals were pretty straightforward because I could pull their original bg packet and bring it current.

Then make sure the lateral wasn’t a slug or a problem child their agency was trying to get rid of.

I got a laugh out of entry level candidates. There were a ton of losers. I arrested two for warrants during our first background meeting.

I was a patrol supervisor for a district so preferred working the street rather than driving a desk.

 

[LizKat]

TMAAT when you woke up in a barn with a goat ...

I'd argue that very few people could even fall asleep near a goat.

That would be an excellent polygraph question.

Indeed.

 

[americafirst]

It was okay. I only did it for about eight months or so.

We hired mostly laterals but processed some entry level.

The laterals were pretty straightforward because I could pull their original bg packet and bring it current.

Then make sure the lateral wasn’t a slug or a problem child their agency was trying to get rid of.

I got a laugh out of entry level candidates. There were a ton of losers. I arrested two for warrants during our first background meeting.

I was a patrol supervisor for a district so preferred working the street rather than driving a desk.

In my federal agency most new special agents get tasked with doing background investigations when they get to their first field office. I did them for about 8 months too and it was okay. The best part is I could come and go as I wish!

I am glad your lateral bg packets were easy to do! I had to fill out SF86 when they were doing the bg investigation just to fill out the same form with the same answers a few months later to renew my security clearance for my army reserve component job. I would have assumed with it being the federal government that I would have had to bring it current but no I had to fill out the whole form.

Meeting entry level candidates for interviews can be interesting. Sometimes I wish I didn't have a collateral duty of recruiting and interviewing but the laugh helps. Did the 2 guys with warrants know they had a warrant when they came for the meeting?

I enjoyed working the street as a city cop and if I had to do it over again I might have stayed instead of leaving for another line of work and ending back up in law enforcement. It would have saved me a lot of money by not getting another degree for that line of work

 

[Gutwrench]

In my federal agency most new special agents get tasked with doing background investigations when they get to their first field office. I did them for about 8 months too and it was okay. The best part is I could come and go as I wish!

I am glad your lateral bg packets were easy to do! I had to fill out SF86 when they were doing the bg investigation just to fill out the same form with the same answers a few months later to renew my security clearance for my army reserve component job. I would have assumed with it being the federal government that I would have had to bring it current but no I had to fill out the whole form.

Meeting entry level candidates for interviews can be interesting. Sometimes I wish I didn't have a collateral duty of recruiting and interviewing but the laugh helps. Did the 2 guys with warrants know they had a warrant when they came for the meeting?

I enjoyed working the street as a city cop and if I had to do it over again I might have stayed instead of leaving for another line of work and ending back up in law enforcement. It would have saved me a lot of money by not getting another degree for that line of work

They didn’t but they weren’t too sharp. Another guy confessed to a felony theft in another jurisdiction. I took his statement and called their dicks who said they had an active case and he was one of their suspects. I sent them my report. I never liked being in the office and close to the admin. I worked almost exclusively patrol my entire career and largely only graves.

 

[americafirst]

They didn’t but they weren’t too sharp. Another guy confessed to a felony theft in another jurisdiction. I took his statement and called their dicks who said they had an active case and he was one of their suspects. I sent them my report. I never liked being in the office and close to the admin. I worked almost exclusively patrol my entire career and largely only graves.

I would bet they weren't too sharp. Did the guy who confessed end up getting charged? I don't like being in the office either. When I was a city cop I left patrol to become a detective because I thought it would allow for more freedom. What I learned was the work was repetitive and that patrol had more diverse work. How did you like working graves?

 

[Gutwrench]

I would bet they weren't too sharp. Did the guy who confessed end up getting charged? I don't like being in the office either. When I was a city cop I left patrol to become a detective because I thought it would allow for more freedom. What I learned was the work was repetitive and that patrol had more diverse work. How did you like working graves?

I never heard back nor did I ever get a subpoena. Our dick’s worked until 2300 so the benefit was getting decent rest. I worked graves by choice and loved it. The hard part was humping for 12 then getting off at 6:30 am and having to be in court and then back again for another 12. I couldn’t afford living in SF so I had a 50 minute off-commute travel time. I got to know a few CHP officers by name. LOLOL.

 

[americafirst]

I never heard back nor did I ever get a subpoena. Our dick’s worked until 2300 so the benefit was getting decent rest. I worked graves by choice and loved it. The hard part was humping for 12 then getting off at 6:30 am and having to be in court and then back again for another 12. I couldn’t afford living in SF so I had a 50 minute off-commute travel time. I got to know a few CHP officers by name. LOLOL.

I never minded working graveyards aside from the unnatural act of sleeping during the day! I think I had a health teacher who was a San Francisco cop when I went to an international school in Europe. It sucks not being able to afford to live closer to work. When I was a city cop all I could afford to live in was a high crime area of the city unless I wanted to drive 30 minutes to the city. I couldn't even imagine a 50 minute commute.

 

[Gutwrench]

I never minded working graveyards aside from the unnatural act of sleeping during the day! I think I had a health teacher who was a San Francisco cop when I went to an international school in Europe. It sucks not being able to afford to live closer to work. When I was a city cop all I could afford to live in was a high crime area of the city unless I wanted to drive 30 minutes to the city. I couldn't even imagine a 50 minute commute.

Which state did you work?

You went to an international school? How did you like it?

Working graves I’d travel against the commute traffic, so that was good. What did suck was coming to the city for 8 am or 10 am court on a day off. I used to come across the GGB so commute traffic sucked...traffic backs up at the toll plaza like a beast.

Traffic there was funny. When I lived in Santa Rosa if I left home at 5:45 am or as late as 6:00 am I could make it to the GGB in 40-ish minutes. But if I left at 6:15 am it could take 1 to 1.5 hours or longer and so on.

 

[americafirst]

Which state did you work?

You went to an international school? How did you like it?

Working graves I’d travel against the commute traffic, so that was good. What did suck was coming to the city for 8 am or 10 am court on a day off. I used to come across the GGB so commute traffic sucked...traffic backs up at the toll plaza like a beast.

Traffic there was funny. When I lived in Santa Rosa if I left home at 5:45 am or as late as 6:00 am I could make it to the GGB in 40-ish minutes. But if I left at 6:15 am it could take 1 to 1.5 hours or longer and so on.

I worked in Georgia where the cost of living is low but so are the wages. With what I was making as a city cop it was either live in a bad part of the city or commute.

I went to an international school in Europe when my father was the legal attache at an embassy. It was fun I enjoyed it. The coursework was somewhat harder than I had in the US but everyone who went to that school was somehow affiliated with some embassy so they had smart parents and were themselves typically smart.

I didn't dislike working graves but trying to sleep during the day was unnatural and never something I could do even in the Army.

Traffic is funny. I have the same experience where if I left a few minutes later I would hit rush hour and end up doubling my commute.